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- 1/23/2022
Canada flags unexplained illnesses for overseas staff to meet 'duty of care'
In September, Global Affairs Canada began briefings with senior managers at headquarters in Ottawa, all heads of mission abroad and partners from other federal departments working at embassies, says a newly disclosed briefing note. - 1/23/2022
Health tech companies face too many challenges breaking into Canada: entrepreneurs
The chief executive at Waterloo, Ont. innovation hub Communitech has spent much of the pandemic hearing about hospitals worried about dwindling inventories of COVID-19 tests, while companies less than 80 kilometres away have the ability to make more. - 1/23/2022
CPSA resource on opening, building, renovating a clinic
The webpage offers helpful advice for physician and non-physician clinic owners. - 1/23/2022
Solving the puzzle of cystic fibrosis and its treatments is a Nobel Prize-worthy breakthrough
The nomination deadline for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is fast approaching. Besides those for the COVID-19 vaccines, several others are prominent, including the discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene and the drugs to treat the disease. - 1/23/2022
Mental health visits by doctors up 27% in first year of COVID-19, study says
The annual rate of outpatient mental health and substance use visits by Ontario doctors increased 27% in the first year of the COVID-19 crisis, a new study suggests, raising concerns about the pandemic's psychological toll across the medical profession. - 1/23/2022
Pharmacists: We’re in the thick of it
Seven characteristics pharmacy leaders can use to prevent burnout and capitalize on the future they’ve earned. - 1/23/2022
More than 330 Ontario schools report absence rates of 30% or higher
The province is no longer publishing information on COVID-19 cases in schools due a restricted testing policy but it is sharing data on absences online, whether or not they are related to the virus. - 1/20/2022
Early treatment could tame peanut allergies in small kids
The researchers gave increasing amounts of peanut protein powder to a group of toddlers to build up their tolerance for peanuts. - 1/20/2022
Nova Scotia health officials recommend throat swab as part of rapid COVID-19 testing
Researchers say samples from nasal or throat swabs detected 64.5% of cases that were detected from PCR tests, while a combination of nose and throat swabs increased accuracy to 88.7%. - 1/20/2022
How are different provinces faring with Omicron?
Ontario announced a plan to start loosening COVID-19 restrictions by the end of the month, but Quebec said it was too early to ease any public health measures.